LUMPKIN, John Henry, (nephew of Wilson Lumpkin),
a Representative from Georgia;
born in Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Ga., June 13, 1812;
attended rural schools and Franklin College (now the University of Georgia) at Athens and Yale College in 1831 and 1832;
appointed private secretary to his uncle, Wilson Lumpkin, Governor of Georgia;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Rome, Ga.;
member of the State house of representatives in 1835;
solicitor general of the Cherokee circuit in 1838;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress;
elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849);
judge of the superior court, Rome circuit, 1850-1853;
elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Rome, Ga.;
was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1857;
served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston, S.C., in 1860;
died in Rome, Ga., July 10, 1860;
interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.